Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The system knew. To say that the complaint was made anonymously implies that the two gardaí in some surreptitious manner forwarded these allegations and ran away from them. That is not the case. The two officers in question went through the appropriate procedure. They went to the confidential recipient and made the allegation. They are absolutely emphatic that at no stage did they wish to distance themselves or have a cloak of anonymity. They were going by the book. My concern is why the witness would appear before the committee and say these matters were anonymous. Bear in mind, he offered that information in response to Deputy Ross's question as to why the two men in question had not been interviewed in the course of the Assistant Commissioner's investigation. He offered the rationale that these matters had been brought forward anonymously.